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>For example, most people wouldn't be against the creation and release of a cure for cancer developed in this way. Intellectual property law does presently restrict the development of cancer treatments and demands in many cases exor
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>But we are allowed to use copyrighted content. We are not allowed to copy copyrighted content. We are allowed to view and consume it, to be influenced by it, and under many circumstances even outright copy it. It's important to con
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>If only there were a more gentle path to editor modes. Maybe some simple graphical representation of the modes and commands that could be down in the corner? I taught myself vim by setting the vim cheat sheet to be my terminal backgroun
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I've heard this claim various times, but it doesn't really make a lot of sense. Butternut squash has a carb:fiber ratio of about 6:1. Canned pumpkin is more like 3.5:1. Sure, the USDA might be lax on the precise definition of the
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>alcohol, weed, SSRIs and tiktok Only one of these is conventionally understood to confer a net benefit in its most common use cases, and the SSRIs have been subject to extensive testing and approval processes. I disagree with the si
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He's doing it wrong. I don't mean some grander point about environmentalism or development, I mean that I have specifically examined solar desalination for the Imperial Valley and he's missed a much simpler way to get the wat
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Mea culpa. Mostly. I relied on Wikipedia's characterization of the E2 series as similar to the Bombardier CSeries which was the subject of the American tariffs you reference. But the CSeries in fact became the A220, significantly small
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>Their latest model is the Irkut MC-21, which has a few hundred orders. Again, effectively all of the orders are Russian. It doesn't exactly help that nobody wants to work with Russia for reasons. >They [Embraer, Brazil] have bee
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The link you're referring to only goes to next year, whereas the infamous pessimistic graphs tried to extrapolate for around a decade. I suppose capitulation would count as an adjustment.
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Ibogaine is a very odd duck in the category of psychedelics. Unlike most psychedelics, which bind principally to the 5-ht2a receptor, ibogaine's affinity for this receptor is 16 micromolar, which should make it irrelevant. Its metaboli
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The Egyptian government is a dictatorship holding together a powder keg. The military coup of 2013 overthrew a Muslim Brotherhood government and was followed by the election of 2014 which produced the very believable and realistic result of
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Isn't this backwards? The equatorial regions including the Red Sea are compressed by Mercator while the high latitudes around the Cape are stretched.
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Britain needs and unprecedented expansion of the electricity grid(economist.com)
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The standard deviation is 15 IIRC. Mine was measured at 159 when I was young (according to my father) which amusingly is the same as Lisa Simpson's.
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Pretty much every variation of "live with more people in the housing unit" makes financial, societal and ecological sense. The problem is always that then you have to live with those people, for various values of "those pe
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A lot of farming would not be viable without roads. It's something of a blind men and the elephant question. Roads weren't originally developed for cars; the US Constitution prescribed the authority to build roads for the postal s
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>Restricting the language to its target use: systems programming, not applications or data science or AI... The only Go I ever touched in industry was the backend of a web-app at Salesforce. I'm not sure this counts as "systems
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Fibers were implemented by Microsoft in Win32 API in 1996: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191011-00/?p=10... As the review Chen links discusses, it turns out that M:N threading (i.e. goroutines) and
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A friend of mine who works for Google noted that they hardly use Go internally, and quipped, "Google invented Go to sabotage its competitors."
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The hard part is that people have already tried really hard to make and measure a superconductor in the LK-99 system, and these researchers have once again gotten close, but not succeeded. There is some precedent for this: one of the highes
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This can probably be addressed in itself by separating "aftercare" into an hour in the morning of "beforecare" in cases where parents really need to drop their kids off early. It's far from convenient for parents to
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This is false. Europe always had public transit, up-front. If you look at e.g. Paris you see that the peak in car ownership and beginning of the decline coincides with the economic crash of 2008: https://www.ceicdata.com/en&
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by scythe 3y ago
A fantastically written article, which goes well into depth on the history of the Ivory Coast and its erstwhile "benevolent" dictator. Worth an hour if you have one. To me, though, he seems to adopt the usual sophomoric mistaken a
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South Sudan is an independent country which is no longer part of Sudan.
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Certain states with very large tourist arrivals in proportion to their population (Nevada, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii) are able to structure their taxes so that (hopefully) much of the tax burden is paid by tourists.
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There's been some pretty interesting developments in the space of wood fiber clothing without such nasty chemicals: http://ioncell.fi/ https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2015&#x2
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I think I had one of these. As I recall, it had an SD card slot, so I just put a 256 GB SD card in there and used it as the main storage. I had some compile-from-source Linux distribution on there, or maybe that was my NetBSD experiment. It
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One of the major limitations of wind power in England is that new onshore wind farms are very difficult to construct if not totally illegal in England. This is probably part of the reason for the situation another commenter noticed: most UK
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There is a unique force driving some people with the means to buy to do so in Florida: https://blog.vanhornlawgroup.com/can-you-file-bankruptcy-and...
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As long as we're casting aspersions, those little blue Uber dashboard lights have given me a few palpitations at this point.

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